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Call me peanut 'cause I'm about to oil.This week we got some hot and spicy internet reviews for a Piggly Wiggly in Talladega, bursting bully sticks dog treats, big ol' Tiger Tail massage rollers, a novel called 'Heartwood', sucking up some Taco Johns, and getting nerdy with 'Gachiakuta'. For the segment, we look at a whole pile of reviews for the game Squirrel with a Gun! Pass me a napkin.Want more party? Check it out at https://www.reviewpartydotcom.com/ !

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We breakdown the Sexiest Man Alive topics before tonight's big announcement. Kevin Costner is out of Yellowstone and he opens up about what he knew and didn't know. We also hear A LOT about Kendall's Taco Johns pants. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

We breakdown the Sexiest Man Alive topics before tonight's big announcement. Kevin Costner is out of Yellowstone and he opens up about what he knew and didn't know. We also hear A LOT about Kendall's Taco Johns pants. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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On this week's episode, Mike is joined by the great Alex Duvall to break down a 3-3 week that saw the Royals take another series from the Blue Jays before dropping one to the World Series champion Texas Rangers. Mike also grills Alex on ways the team can improve with a game he's calling "In a Perfect World ...". They cap it all off with a preview of this week's games. Plus, Mike references Taco Johns 472 times. A big thank you to our sponsors: Erick Auxier of West USA Realty: https://erickauxier.com/ All In Physical Therapy: https://allin-pt.com/ Listen to the latest episode of Royals Weekly anywhere you get podcasts including … Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/royals-weekly/id1557151861 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2ELyTCKp20UXva2URM02YG?si=9667a82115bb40b1 Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@royalsweekly And follow us on social media: Twitter: https://twitter.com/RoyalsWeekly Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/royalsweekly Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/royalsweekly/ #kansascityroyals #kcroyals #royals #kansascity #mlb #baseball

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In this episode, Mike and Pat breakdown the Packers loss in Denver and the Badgers win in Champaign. Also, Mike breaks through in the "6 Pack and a Pound Picks Challenge" brought to you by Taco Johns and wins week 7.Thanks for listening!! Follow us on Twitter @banging_drum, @MJDorty, @pat_jerome22Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/bangingonthedrumYouTube: @bangingonthedrum8310 Email us at bangingonthedrum@gmail.com

In this episode we cover what is to come this weekend and I am going to be a little lazy and just list the segments below!Overs/Unders (How our week went)Roll out the Barrel (The Brewers are looking good)Jump in the Stands (The Packers vs Saints game will be a good one)Jump Around (Wisconsin @ Purdue preview)6 Pack and a Pound Picks brought to you by Taco Johns, Sun Drop, and Coney Island. Mike and Pat's picks for the week. And Mike has to shotgun another Sun Drop from his loss last week.Follow us on Twitter @banging_drum, @MJDorty, @pat_jerome22Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/bangingonthedrumYouTube: @bangingonthedrum8310Email us at bangingonthedrum@gmail.com

This is it! The BIG 200th EPISODE & SEASON 2 FINALE OF TACO THE TOWN! And we're doing something we've never done before...WE'RE EATING TACOS ON A BOAT! That's right, we're out on a lake (Lakewood Lake in Lee's Summit, MO), eating some tasty TACO NACO Tacos with some TACO THE TOWN ALL STARS! We've got Pontoon Capt. Keenan Stump, Megan Werner, Mariah Kelli, Erika Holliday, Carlos Chamon & The Villines Sisters, Heather & Kaity! And we even sit down for a visit with Taco Naco's Chef Fernanda Reyes, who tells us about the new Westport Taco Naco location, Taco Naco's origins and plays a little TACO TOPICS Speed Round with us! Join us on the high taco seas as we play some TACO THE TOWN TRIVIA for fabulous Taco Prizes (PLAY ALONG AT HOME!) and taco 'bout some taco news in the TACO TICKER! Ticker Stories covered: An update on the Taco Tuesday trademark Wars between Taco Bell, Taco Johns & Gregory's Bar in New Jersey! And the Flying Subway Blimp that was flying over KC! Are flying Taco Blimps in our future?! This one has it all!! We check the HOT TACO HOTLINE featuring former T3 guests Kate Haugan & Chunter McCrae giving us well wishes on 200 episodes! We also have some stand up boat comedy from guest Carlos Chamon and we encounter a chatty citizen of the Lake: Christopher The Fish!! AND DON'T MISS A LIVE MUSICAL PERFORMANCE from our Pontoon Boat Captain Keenan Stump singing a little ditty called 'TACOS ALWAYS ON MY MIND!" ALL THIS AND: We slap ourselves in the faces with some tortillas as we attempt to play the TORTILLA CHALLENGE! T3, CELEBRATING 200 EPISODES OF TALKING TACOS IN THE CITY OF FOUNTAINS BY EATING TACOS ON YET ANOTHER TRANSPORTATION VESSEL! TACOS AHOY!!! Editor: MATT ALLEN. Music: Suneaters courtesy of Lotuspool Records. Sponsors: KCKC TACO TRAIL. 

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Joseph is the former host of Forktales and is currently working as the VP of Digital Experience for 3 Owl. He's also the author of “Stop Blasting My Mama” (a book about effective email marketing) and “The Bullhearted Brand: Building Bullish Restaurant Brands That Charge Ahead of the Herd.” Joseph's book, “Stop Blasting My Mama,” tackles the topic of email marketing and how modern marketing is overrun with overly aggressive terms – like blast and campaign – to describe what should be a friendly and civil interaction with consumers. Consumers today have more power today and can ignore brands – or cancel brands – whenever they want to. Technology is changing the restaurant industry and restaurants need to get onboard with that technological evolution or risk being left behind. QUOTES “One day we'll be able to do a podcast without mentioning the pandemic. Today is not that day.” (Joseph) “I always cringe when I hear the words ‘e-blast' or things like that because it's antithetical to behaviors of humans in general. Nobody is walking around saying ‘Gosh, I really hope I get blasted today.'” (Joseph) “I like to think of this world that we're in as one big party. If you walked into that party alone and you said at top of your lungs, ‘Hey everyone, I just want you to know that I'm really cool.” You're immediately not and you're going to have a hard time convincing everyone that you are.” (Joseph) “Restaurants are the backbone of every single economy – from micro local to federal. If you lose restaurants in the city center, you've lost the city center.” (Joseph) “The first victims of AI are the ones who phone it in. The mediocre hamburger won't be there anymore.” (Joseph) “Bro, we are not eating bugs. It's not happening. Unless there's some sort of nuclear holocaust, Americans are not eating bugs.” (Joseph) TRANSCRIPT 00:01.20 vigorbranding Well hey there um some of you watching this may be a little confused right now usually ah Joseph is on ah on the left side of your screen and for those that who are watching ah this podcast. The reason he's on the right side is because he's a guest a guest today. And I was honored to be 1 of Joseph's guests way back when um, the reason we've switched sides is Joseph has accepted another position. He's no longer with vigor or the provone marketing group but he's off into some wonderful new things that he's going to talk to us about and we're excited to to catch up with Joseph. Um. For those don't know my name is Michael Pavone I'm the Ceo of the provevone group and we have several different agencies in our holding company and we're excited to talk to Joseph. He's created 67 fantastic episodes and we're going to hit a little bit of your. History the the the good old days. Ask you some questions and just just find out what you're up to. 00:55.28 Joseph Szala Awesome. It's great to be here. 01:00.95 vigorbranding Ah, since you're in your house. It probably is always great to be there. But anyway, all right? So ah, let's see let's it's talk. Let's talk about a little bit. What have you been up to talk about your career which you're heading to now and what you're excited about as far as the restaurant industry and technology. 01:04.39 Joseph Szala That's right. 01:17.37 Joseph Szala Yeah, yeah, so um, as you said I forayed out of the advertising and marketing world into more tech forward focus and space I'm currently vice president of digital experience at a transformation company There's not much detail I can say but. We'll we'll say that we're building an experience management system for restaurant brands. Um, you know what? What really got me excited about the tech space is how much this industry is going through a breakneck speed digital transformation. Um. one day we'll be able to do a podcast where we don't mention the pandemic today's not that day. Um, the pandemic really spurred on any mules that were out there and now everyone is realizing that tech is not the way of the future. It's now and um, part of that is how how do we get people. Ah, through ordering faster quicker keep them happy. How do we pull some of that share of wallet away from third -party delivery and then more importantly, how do we make sure that brand teams have access to the tools so they can um pivot and make pivots in real-time all through a singular. Portal that brings together an average of 5 to 8 different systems. So very nerdy stuff but that's the stuff that I get excited about. 02:39.70 vigorbranding It sounds like you have the secret sauce. It's awesome I Mean you're right I mean obviously the whole world's Changed. You see these lines that drivethroughs the delivery services you see the the clients trying to get their share back because these delivery services have come out and taken you know their hands in their pocket and it's really been. Ah. Ah, it's It's amazing how that how fast that happened It's certainly the pandemic exacerbated it. So it's It's kind of ah, kind of interesting to watch and I'll be great to watch you and what you're doing as the time moves On. Um, Okay, so let's jump back a little bit. Ah you don't like blasting people with emails. Ah, you want to talk about that. 03:15.85 Joseph Szala I don't like blessing people in general I think it's a broader what which started as sort of um, a tongue and cheek thing or not a tonguein cheek thing but like 1 moment I always cringe when I hear the words eblast or anything like that because it's inethetical to. Behaviors of humans in general. Nobody's walking around saying gosh I really hope a brand would blast me today. Um, and it sort of harkens to like the old school mentality of advertising and marketing when I say old school I mean like way back in the day where we were just doing billboards and magazine ads where it was push push push push push. Well. The the people have the power they have the power of no no longer just turning the dial as we used to say in the in the tv days um or flipping the page they have the power to completely ignore a brand and shut them out and even more so they have the brand the power to cancel a brand if they get too aggressive and so. Blast then as I pondered it more became ah almost a um I want to say rallying cry but it's going to be more the same There's just a lot of violent terminology in our industry and it's kind of sad because we're not at war with people. Um, we're we're looking to befriend and hopefully get some people to fall in love with our our clients. Um no matter what side of the creative or um, consulting table. You're on the goal is to get them to love the brand and you're not going to do that. 04:47.20 Joseph Szala By blasting them or launching a campaign another war term. Um, it's it's more How do you become friends and and I like to think of this world that we're in as as 1 big party and if you walked into that party alone. And you just at the top of your lungs said hey everyone I just want you to know that I'm really cool. You're immediately not and you're going to have a really hard time convincing anyone that you are after that moment yet. That's how we approach things today we meaning the collective creative advertising industry. Um, and so that really has kind of settled into maybe more of a um personal purpose to 1 identify better terminology. Um, for all these various things. Um, that is a little more in line with what we're actually trying to do and and that's that's why I hate the word blast. 05:50.95 vigorbranding That's fantastic. Um, you also wrote a book. Do you want to talk a little bit about that. 05:53.98 Joseph Szala Yeah, 2 books. So the first book is stop blasting my mama which is essentially building off of that whole line of thinking. It's specifically about emails. But I think maybe one day in the near future. It might get expanded into general messaging marketing theory who knows. 05:57.80 vigorbranding Right. 06:13.56 Joseph Szala Um, but what I would call my greatest achievement in in the literary sense to date or not literary because it is nonfiction. But um, it's called the bullhearted brand which is evocative of more I would say a general thinking and approach to how brands are built. Ah, fostered grown encouraged all the words and then of course marketed and all that other stuff and so the idea is um, boiled down into a bunch of different I would say 10 different um anecdotes that then. Unfurl into Theory. Um I've read a lot I've done a lot and this just happens to be the culmination of all my knowledge at the time and it's something I'm pretty proud of. 07:02.60 vigorbranding Very cool and you should be now speaking of proud I know you did 67 episodes this is my first. What's your advice I mean yeah obviously I'm not as good looking as you so strike one now where do we go from here I mean like what do I do? How give me some advice on. 07:13.58 Joseph Szala Okay, yeah. 07:20.24 vigorbranding And how to be an engaging podcaster or. 07:22.15 Joseph Szala Yeah, So what's good is you have a fantastic history of being able to speak So You're a pretty good Order. So when I when I talk to like a novice or someone who's looking to start I would say the hardest thing that you're going to have to do is get rid of the ums and the Us and the other filler words. Um, you're pretty good at that and so that that doesn't need to be delved into further. Um I think it's yeah and I just said um, too. Yeah, so. 07:45.27 vigorbranding But now that you put that in my head. 07:53.97 Joseph Szala What? Ah, That's usually the toughest thing for people to do. It seems like we're very uncomfortable with silence and pauses. But you start to get really used to them and it becomes an empowering moment I think is when you just stop and let the silence be what it is um on the other hand. I Think one of the other good things is just letting the guest talk but that actually starts not with the host it starts with the production team and making sure that the kind of guests that are brought on have something valuable to say so when when a guest is rambling on I might be doing that Now. It's really easy to want to jump in. 08:23.10 vigorbranding Very cool. 08:30.93 Joseph Szala Um, but when a guest has something really powerful to say it's a lot easier to sit back and let them go. 08:33.75 vigorbranding Fantastic. So the thing second thing I learned is it's all the the production team's fault if it's not good. Perfect well done. That's great. That's that's that's take home value. That's take home value. Fantastic. So so I want to ask another question on your on on the the blog. 08:42.47 Joseph Szala Um, that's right, Yeah, you're the talent you you could just point the finger. That's okay. 08:53.43 vigorbranding Or the blog I'm sorry the the podcast 67 episodes which one was your favorite. 08:58.98 Joseph Szala Ah, man it's such like God is so hard to say it's It's like when you have friends or or kids or or in your dating life. It's like every one of them was different and every one of them was amazing and terrible at the same time. Ah. 09:12.22 Joseph Szala No I think there was generally some great insights coming from people I was really impressed with it's really hard to to keep them apart. Um Carl oresburn which I think his episode should launch soon and Meredith Sandlin um they're just so brilliant and they're at the absolute forefront a digital transformation from a hardware and software side. Um, you know early, you mentioned a lot of the transformation that's happened on the front end like my drivethroughs and my and my lines and everything it's easy for people to ah, not know. Unless they were in the industry and forget if they are no longer in the industry. There's an entire backoffice engine behind the scenes that have to make stuff work. So I mean they're in the nitty gritty especially Marilyn or Meredith. She's absolutely crushing it so much insight and it was. 09:48.13 vigorbranding Sure. 09:59.28 Joseph Szala Both of those episodes were episodes where I wish I could have had more of a Joe Rogan format where it would have been three or four hours long um surprising was ah chef Scott Conant one I was surprised that he agreed to come on so that was awesome. Um, for those that don't know he's on. Tv Networks he's very well-known. But what's so surprising is he his approach his demeanor his intelligence. Um, and just him it was just a really really good talk and one of my prouder moments as well. 10:32.96 vigorbranding Very cool I mean it's It's ah it's interesting to me as you know obviously I've seen podcasts and doing this now being on this side is really ah, really interesting because it is all about the the guest and it's what they have to bring and I sit back and I ask myself too like what do people want to hear. What are they going to want to see and I'm thinking about people that have just great stories entrepreneurs people that have built things from nothing people that have just really you know taken a category if you will and expanded on it that that kind of stuff that excites me I don't know if that's something that that everybody else would would would glom onto I mean I know the. Technology I mean obviously all about food and beverage and restaurants and all that but the technology is super important. It's changing a light speed. Did you you spent most of the time with the technology side of things in the restaurants or did you find that it just hearing people's personal stories about how they got involved is that do you think that's intriguing to guess. 11:22.94 Joseph Szala Yeah I think it is I mean the reason why I'm so passionate about restaurants is they are the backbone of every single economy from micro-local the wholeway to federal and I think people forget that and that includes franchise systems and franchisees. If you lose restaurants in a city center. You've lost the city center. Um, it happened I would say decades ago. Ah, for instance down the street from Harrisburg in York you know York was a ghost town. What brings people back food restaurants. Do. 11:54.67 vigorbranding Um, yeah, yeah. 11:57.28 Joseph Szala Good restaurants and then comes the retail and then comes the businesses because they want their people to be in a bustling location with lots to do and then comes the residences people want to live there but without the restaurants you get none of that. Um, and so that to me is such a powerful thing and. 12:09.30 vigorbranding Ah, right. 12:16.90 Joseph Szala I Think in that vein the stories of how people got into that powerful industry are always interesting I think founders. How did you found the concept and grow it is another one. Everyone wants the secret sauce yet? No one wants to realize that there is no secret sauce. 12:31.58 vigorbranding Right? yeah. 12:34.66 Joseph Szala That the secret sauce from 1980 s is not the secret sauce from today. Um, and that I think how you know how how things are evolving today and how do these leaders continue to grapple wrestle pin down and ultimately win in an ever-changing environment with all these. Shifts that seem to have accelerated so quickly after the the big p. 13:01.76 vigorbranding That's Good. So what? What do you? Think's next for restaurants I mean the technology you're working on obviously is exciting. Ah, we do marketing of restaurants I mean I'm sure we'll continue to work together in the future. What What do you see as ah. I Don't know what's next. What do? What do you think is going to be the the new thing or the thing that we have to really understand. 13:22.37 Joseph Szala Yeah I think some of it is aligned with every other industry mediocrity has no place any longer. There's no place for it Ai the first victims of Ai are going to be those that phone it in so your mediocre hamburger. It won't be there anymore or if it is it's going to be replaced by. Ah. 13:31.65 vigorbranding He. 13:39.59 Joseph Szala By robotics and ai in in general I know it's a really big 2 letters but um, at some point I think we'll also see a complete shift away from the mindless person punching keys on ah you know on a register. And instead becoming more of a helpful entity to help people actually order from kiosks you kind of see it happening in retail already. Especially if you've used the self-checkout at grocery stores or or um, you know like Target or something there are people there whose job is to just help. 14:09.66 vigorbranding M. 14:15.38 vigorbranding Yeah, yeah. 14:16.92 Joseph Szala Make sure you know what you're doing make sure you're able to get through I think we're there especially for qsr restaurants. Um, there are restaurants out there that don't even have those people they just have cubbies and there's a person that backed that makes the food puts them in the cubby just like the old automat. It's been rejuvenated and. 14:27.25 vigorbranding Oh. 14:36.31 Joseph Szala There is a time and place where and I think we're we're at both right now. Full service I think you're going to see a divide. You're going to see a bigger schism between casual dining and fine dining where fine dining gets even higher touch with people who actually not only know the wine menu. But actually know the nuances of the wine If. That's an option at this particular fake restaurant that are very deeply integrated and are very high touch and most of us have had that experience and when you go to that and then you go to like a sort of fine dining or just full service. Man. 15:04.63 vigorbranding Okay. 15:12.67 Joseph Szala That's just going to get so much bigger whereas casual dining I think will become more tech enabled to where you can be more self-service but still have that sitdown moment and then there's the great frontiers of Self-d delivery or self-driving vehicles and what that means for delivery. Um, can I sit in my. Vehicle of the future and order directly from my screen that's in the car without getting in an accident of course. Um and then what does virtual Worlds and the metaverse start to look like um in general and that's where I start to get really weird with you know, ah, 3 D printed food and things like that. But. 15:34.30 vigorbranding Oh. 15:48.74 vigorbranding You. 15:50.90 Joseph Szala Everything that sounds insane today next year probably won't be insane at all. 15:54.12 vigorbranding Yeah, very interesting How about like you you spent a lot of your time branding and helping create Concepts. What do you see? I mean there's There's so many out there. I Mean do we have too many.. What do? What do you think is going to happen where is there a genre that you think is going to be prevalent or or place that people are going to head to I mean I don't think we need another burger joint right? I mean there's just so many burger joints right? So What do you?? What do you think?? What do you think from branding standpoint what's going to be What's What's next. 16:17.27 Joseph Szala Um. 16:23.86 Joseph Szala Yeah I feel like if you ask any anyone of the pundits that talk about Trends and and what's coming they're they're always going to jump to bugs like I swear every year I see a food Trends report. Not um, not on the retail side but maybe on the retail side but when I'm looking at restaurant stuff. It's like and bugs. Bro We are not eating bugs. It's not happening unless there's like some sort of nuclear holocaust like we're just Americans specifically will not be eating Bugs. Um, but I think I think outside of that there are a number of paths that. 16:45.40 vigorbranding Yeah, yeah, yeah. 16:59.20 Joseph Szala That can happen for concepts I think exploring robotics exploring alternative for wall experiences like I know some folks who are embracing all outdoor where the food is cooked outdoors. Everything's outdoors. Um. Very gorilla very interesting to me I don't know if it would have a su but as far as trending we just I think finished up the chicken sandwich wars um I think taco wars are bubbling. Um you know and and we're seeing it Taco Johns for instance, just released their. Ah. 17:27.16 vigorbranding O. 17:35.27 Joseph Szala Trademark of Taco tuesday along with a call to action from Taco Bell to do something charitable when they use it and donate Taco Bell ignored it completely. But we'll see if they embrace it? Um, but the fast food tacos are something that I would definitely keep my eye on. And then I think we're still looking for what's that next american food staple. You know we have tacos pizza. We have hamburgers like you said what else you know what? what else are we going to embrace. 17:56.33 vigorbranding Who. 18:05.82 vigorbranding Yeah, yeah, you know it's funny I had this idea one of my dreams was ah I wanted to create my own restaurant franchise. So my idea which was a terrible one by the way is I wanted to buy a location near every like single a double a triple a ballpark right. And I wanted to call it baseball hot dogs and apple pie and I just wanted to sell hot dogs and have different hot dogs on the menu named after the players tied into the players and then different like Apple pies like that's it and a draft beer so you can have it outside the ballpark. It would be a sports bar and everything else I just thought it had enough of a niche and I always wanted to create that business I just thought it would be the most fun thing and anyway. 18:24.37 Joseph Szala Um. 18:30.40 Joseph Szala Yep. 18:43.29 Joseph Szala Yeah, it's probably why you still have money? yeah. 18:43.82 vigorbranding I never did it but maybe one day and it probably fail. Yeah, exactly exactly it'd probably fail. So yeah I know I know how to stay in my lane. Ah all right? So so great I mean this has been fantastic now we going to go down through memory lane a little bit here. Ah. 18:50.96 Joseph Szala Right. 18:59.68 Joseph Szala Ah. 18:59.87 vigorbranding And ask you some questions we're going to test you on your knowledge of your guests and ah boy I hope no one ever does this to me. Ah, and we're and and I'll remember my first guess I'm good I got that one down so that's 3 things I got nailed down from this this interview. Um, who was your first. Forktails guest. 19:19.50 Joseph Szala Oh yeah, so it's funny. Ah, the first forktales guest was my friend sam slaughter he was also a copywriter at vigor at the time to known for bathing with a bunch of cheese balls. 19:25.71 vigorbranding It's correct. Oh. We We won't dig into that any deeper. But anyway, ah, ah, all right? So which guests did you have on the show more than once. Yes, very good, Very good. 19:34.86 Joseph Szala Um, listen to the episode. 19:44.15 Joseph Szala Justin Bartek yeah 19:49.15 vigorbranding All right? Let's see here which guest is described in his episode as let's see here lover of seafood and honesty. 20:00.10 Joseph Szala That is chef Andrew gruel. 20:06.80 vigorbranding And you're nailing them here. You might might have someone give you the answers ah finish this quote from your interview with Meredith Sandland if someone comes here and tries to take my blank. It's going to get really ugly very good. 20:19.42 Joseph Szala My gas stove I stand by that. 20:23.50 vigorbranding Ah, good. Ah all right? which guest beat Bobby Flay 20:32.66 Joseph Szala Ah, Kenny Gilbert right yeah oh man, best chicken sandwiches man if you're ever in Jacksonville chicken sandwiches and champagne. That's all you need to know. 20:35.12 vigorbranding That's correct. Yes, it is very good. Yeah, nice, nice sounds like a perfect combo all right, which guest was born and raised in Hawaii and is now a chef in Denver very good, very good. 20:51.55 Joseph Szala Ah, Chef Choy Guard Yeah, all about that Aloha ohanna. 20:59.80 vigorbranding And which guest said this is said my job as ah as lead creative is to give everyone creative whiplash. You never know where we're going to do next. 21:07.76 Joseph Szala That is the guy from liquid death whose name I'm blanking on Andrew Pearson there it is yep. 21:14.55 vigorbranding Andrew Pearson yep very good and the the folks of liquid death are killing it no pun intended. So right finish this quote from you in your interview with Lauren Fernandez 21:22.62 Joseph Szala Um, yeah. 21:29.75 vigorbranding You can tell how well a restaurant is managed if you just look at the. 21:35.38 Joseph Szala God landscaping now. 21:40.14 vigorbranding You know what? The only thing they wrote down was blank. So I can't answer it. The only one I don't have an answer on you don't have an answer on how about the bathrooms I would say the bathrooms. 21:48.40 Joseph Szala Yeah, it could be bathrooms for sure landscaping. Oddly enough is one and then I would say the happiness of the employees but they may all be wrong. 22:00.36 vigorbranding Um, we'll put all 3 down all right? Oh no, it's here the vents. 22:05.92 Joseph Szala Oh God The vents. Yes, oh next time you're at a restaurant either do or don't just look up at the air events man. Oh how can I forget that. 22:13.16 vigorbranding Yeah, we're all looking we're we're all looking around my office now at the air events but a bit aren they're okay, no, no yeah. 22:20.26 Joseph Szala Well, the good news is you're not making food but there's something pretty disgusting if you're making food and those air vens are just just C clopped full of old grease and the. 22:26.65 vigorbranding Ah, yeah, that's funny which which guest was described in her episode title as 1 woman economic engine. 22:36.81 Joseph Szala Oh that is Adena Ana Bio she's absolutely wonderful. 22:43.10 vigorbranding Yep, very cool finish this quote from you in your interview with Zach Anderson whenever I have a bad day I think to myself at least I'm not. 22:57.46 Joseph Szala Oh god yeah least I'm not working on 1 again. Um, at least I'm not mopping the floor is that what that isn't it. Oh I'm blanking on that one. 22:59.72 vigorbranding Ties into restaurants. 23:10.51 vigorbranding Know it's It's ah it's honestly it's how I started my career. It's busing tables. 23:17.30 Joseph Szala Busing tables. Yeah dude Oh God Although if we ever wanted to know the key to stopping time. That's it You can literally stop time by either planks doing planks or busing tables. 23:27.49 vigorbranding Yeah, yeah, you know I will say though in in all joking side I got one heck of an education from busing tables I worked in a restaurant called hobarts with a gentleman by the name of Hobart Umberger Hobart was this chef. He had a restaurant that sold a lot of quantity food was called ah it was called ummmies in Hershey and he wanted to do. He's got older. He just wanted to do whatever he wanted to do he wanted to do his thing so as the chef he opened up hobarts named after him white tablec cloth. He made maybe five things a night didn't care if you liked it or not and that's what he made. And was as simple as that but he taught me everything I won't get into what he called me as a nickname I think he actually liked me but I can't say to anybody what he called me. But anyway I digress he taught me how to pour ah mixed drinks because I'd have to make him mixed drinks at the end of his night. 24:04.58 Joseph Szala Yeah. 24:19.30 vigorbranding He basically taught me everything I knew about food and wine I got an incredible education at age I think it was 14 like I need to worry about wine at 14 and than anybody in my family and most any well all my friends you know, just because Hobart would teach me and it was ah was actually pretty cool. In fact. Ah, 1 thing that was kind of neat was ah he would go in at three o'clock in the afternoon to make his coconut cream emirata pie and no one was allowed in a building and go ah gourmet magazine ah begged him begged him for his recipe and he would never give it to him so he died with it. It was kind of interesting thing. They'd write him. Letters. 24:38.76 Joseph Szala And. 24:51.54 vigorbranding Because a lot of prominent people that came through hershey always ate. There was the best restaurant in Hershey and people would write letters to the magazine and so they kept begging him for this anyway, kind of a neat thing. But yeah, it was cool and I really did truly get a phenomenal education from that from busing tables and working in that restaurant business all right? so. 24:58.90 Joseph Szala I Love that. 25:06.56 Joseph Szala Um, well I think that's a testament to to the restaurant industry in general, not not to diverge too much. But again not only is it the economic backbone of every every locale. Um, but it's a hell of a way to get a hard knocks education that is unforgettable. No matter where you go after that I mean you're. You're you're the Principal partner of a very large advertising conglomerate I'd be willing to bet that your your your travel to that layer would have been a little bit more difficult had you not been in the trenches at that at that location. 25:37.82 vigorbranding Ah, yeah, look in ah in a restaurant you learn how to hustle you learn how to deal with issues as they pop up because that's what they do, they just pop up and you get to deal with customers and you make everyone happy. So you you learn a lot about yourself. Ah. You don't have 5 layers of folks around you to protect you per se and it's just ah, really kind of an interesting kind of dynamic and you're just thrown into it especially when you're young I've always wanted my kids to work in a restaurant and also somehow do sales I don't care if you're selling girl scout cookies. 25:56.11 Joseph Szala Okay. 26:07.82 Joseph Szala Ah. 26:09.34 vigorbranding Or newspapers I mean I'm now I'm really dating myself here but whatever it would be that you're selling just a sales job. Huge huge education that you don't even know you're getting that you don't even know you getting So anyway, um you had a great thing at the end of every one of your podcasts. You would ask the same questions and I want to continue that tradition. 26:14.76 Joseph Szala Absolutely yep. 26:28.51 vigorbranding Ah, so you have one last meal. What do you eat and why. 26:34.47 Joseph Szala Yeah, so for those that have ever listened to all of them back to-back which is literally nobody except for me I've answered it and I thought about this again because I did know this question was coming. It hasn't changed. Um I would have a Thanksgiving dinner. Absolutely hands down. Um, it's my favorite meal and I have the unique situation where I know that that's what I would choose because there was a time in my life where I thought I was having my last dinner and um, it was before yeah I mean good good good perspective um 26:52.12 vigorbranding That's it. Thanks Jimmy. 27:02.83 vigorbranding Nice, Well not nice, but right. 27:10.58 Joseph Szala You know I was going to have heart I had heart surgery. So although it was fairly so you know safe. It's still heart surgery you know and so I was like this very well could be the last mail Thanksgiving dinner man. Absolutely. 27:16.67 vigorbranding Sure really. Wow now I got a side question would it be just the meal itself because you love like the turkey and the gravy by yourself. Are you talking Thanksgiving dinner with everybody that you normally have a Thanksgiving dinner with and and hopefully none of your family's going to watch us to know the real answer. So. 27:31.95 Joseph Szala Um, to stay. Yeah, Absolutely um, I'd be I'd be selective with who I broke bread with because there's some family members that I love them because they're family but my God I would not want to have my last meal with them. And I think that's everyone. But for the food sake I could eat alone and be happy for the sake of the moment I Absolutely would love my family to be there. 28:00.95 vigorbranding Fantastic Speaking of family you have some ah big news. We love to talk about that. 28:03.36 Joseph Szala Yeah, sure yeah number 2 our second baby is on the way evelyn our first is about to turn ten months at this time of this recording and baby boy will be here by the end of the year and we're ah, really excited and honored and. 28:17.68 vigorbranding Fantastic. Are you gonna be the oldest father in the elementary school. 28:21.98 Joseph Szala Praying for Health and happiness. You know Absolutely I'm going to be in there with a walker. Yeah. 28:29.42 vigorbranding Ah, that's awesome Joe so I've known you for a long time and I'm happy for you I'm proud of you and I'm congratulations. That's wonderful. Wonderful. 28:35.46 Joseph Szala Absolutely well I'll drop one more piece of news that might get you excited before this is all over in case, you haven't heard Atlanta has finally been honored by being accepted into consideration for Michelin stars. So we were all. 28:48.93 vigorbranding Nice. 28:52.93 Joseph Szala Everyone in the food community here in this city. We're all, um, hoping and excited to see if one of our many fantastic restaurants will be graced with star stars. Whatever it may be so next time you come down to the city. Hopefully you'll you'll have that option. 29:06.41 vigorbranding very cool. very cool yeah yeah I'll be down in a couple couple of weeks I'm gonna watch a Braves Phillies game. So looking forward to that and I heard something in the background some'm cheering I think it was are yelling somebody was ah their baby I think was excited about the Michelin star. So that's awesome. 29:19.53 Joseph Szala Yeah, yeah, evelyn it's perfect. 29:22.54 vigorbranding But's awesome. Ah fantastic. Well, it's thank you so much for this. It's been great. It's always good catching up with you and I I know we'll stay in touch. 29:28.32 Joseph Szala Absolutely I'm looking forward to seeing hearing the guests and and hearing the interviews and really happy that you're able to continue continue on with us. 29:35.72 vigorbranding Yeah, only hopefully I can fill your shoes. It'll be tough but I'm gonna do my best. So awesome! Thanks Joseph. 29:42.20 Joseph Szala Um, if they're not that big. Yup cheers.

Mexico City native Pati Jinich made an unusual career change: from a political analyst at a Washington, D.C. think tank to a cooking teacher and, eventually, award-winning PBS host. For over a decade, she's been sharing her love of Mexico and Mexican cooking with the masses through her shows Pati's Mexican Table and La Frontera. Pati is Mexican-Jewish, and grew up eating Mexican takes on classic Ashkenazi Jewish dishes. So after speaking with Jinich, host Rachel Belle also interviews the authors of the new book Kugels and Collards about another lesser-known mashup: Jewish South Carolina cooking! And in taco news: After 35 years, the phrase Taco Tuesday is finally free from a federal trademark! Rachel digs into the whole story. Follow host Rachel Belle on Instagram! Subscribe to Rachel's free newsletter so you can be the first to know about events, giveaways & content only available to subscribers! Support the show by becoming a paid subscribe www.yourlastmealpodcast.comSupport the show: http://rachelbelle.substack.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Jason welcomed Chief Marketing Officer Barry Westrum and Corporate Chef Brad Bergaus from Taco Johns on today's "DeRusha Eats".

Taco Johns gave up the trademark for Taco Tuesdays; Chevy Chase is selling off 40 pieces of his Landshark SNL costume; The Carlee Russell disappearance; Game Show Roulette Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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Jordana's Wingin it Wednesday is about Tacos and cooperate greed. 

Radar Online says Harry and Meghan are spending some time apart, Taco Johns dropped its Taco Tuesday trademark, and today is National Hot Dog Day!

It's the Business News Headlines for Tuesday the 18th day of July, thanks for coming by! A quick programing note: We'll be featuring a couple of new interviews this week one is about a metro based no-kill shelter that takes in "special needs" cats and dogs and we'll also chat with the Director of the Iowa Economic Development Authority, Debi Durham about Iowa, Israel, workforce and innovation. Yes, we cover it all it would seem. Those stories and more coming to you this week. Oh, on Threads you can find us @Insight_On_Business. And you can hook up with us all day on Twitter @IOB_NewsHour and on Instagram.  Here's what we've got for you today: Aviation and Congress what it's about; Taco Tuesday, Taco Johns and Taco Bell; The retail report some good news and well... Asking for retail pharmacy help to lower drug prices; Living alone has become quite the thing; The Wall Street Report; Banks Healthy...Startups Not-So-Much. Thanks for listening! The award winning Insight on Business the News Hour with Michael Libbie is the only weekday business news podcast in the Midwest. The national, regional and some local business news along with long-form business interviews can be heard Monday - Friday. You can subscribe on PlayerFM, Podbean, iTunes, Spotify, Stitcher or TuneIn Radio. And you can catch The Business News Hour Week in Review each Sunday Noon on News/Talk 1540 KXEL. The Business News Hour is a production of Insight Advertising, Marketing & Communications. You can follow us on Twitter @IoB_NewsHour...and on Threads @Insight_On_Business.

Follow us because we talked about how we are going to fund our Taco Johns, Rizz broke an old rule and what did we get in the box? @RizzShow @MoonValjeanHere @KingScottRules @ LernVsRadio @IamRafeWilliams http://www.1057thepoint.com/Rizz Check out @FreeThe2SG and King Scott's http://TheBabyBee.com and Check out Moon's bands GREEK FIRE @GreekFire GOLDFINGER @GoldfingerMusic THE TEENAGE DIRTBAGS @TheTeenageDbags and www.moondropscbd.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Follow us because we talked about how we are going to fund our Taco Johns, Rizz broke an old rule and what did we get in the box? @RizzShow @MoonValjeanHere @KingScottRules @ LernVsRadio @IamRafeWilliams http://www.1057thepoint.com/Rizz Check out @FreeThe2SG and King Scott's http://TheBabyBee.com and Check out Moon's bands GREEK FIRE @GreekFire GOLDFINGER @GoldfingerMusic THE TEENAGE DIRTBAGS @TheTeenageDbags and www.moondropscbd.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Mack takes a news quiz and we get to the bottom of which is better. Taco Johns or Taco Bell? E-Mail: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠OffAllDay@outlook.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ . For additional content check out our #Instagram and #TikTok: @OffAllDayPodcast . #Twitter: @OffAllDay . "College Rock" provided by "Man Bites Dog" via ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠http://audiosoundclips.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ . Music: Rock License: Commons 3.0 --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/OffAllDay/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/OffAllDay/support

In which we snack on the latest food news and the upcoming Taco Wars. Oh did you not know about the Taco Wars? Well now you do! Also, for those of you that don't know about the majesty that is Taco Johns… just click this link. Welcome. I'll be LIVE at Kulak's Woodshed July 29th and tickets are goin fast so get on it! Recorded LIVE at Chicago's Historic Green Mill Lounge on May 20th 2023 courtesy of Jeppson's Malört: The Official Drink of the Apocalypse Come find me in all your favorite places including my Discord! Featuring “Promises” by the Barrerracudas and a snippy of “The Wasteland” courtesy of Ross Bugden Twitter: Instagram For commissions/scores: bugdenross@gmail.comPLEASE RATE AND REVIEW and as aways: BLACK LIVES MATTER, MASK, VAX and BOOST, eat the rich and save me some sides.

  For decades, free AM broadcast radio has been an essential tool in emergencies, a crucial part of our diverse media ecosystem, and an irreplaceable source for news, weather, sports, and entertainment for tens of millions of listeners. If passed, the bill would direct the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration to issue a rule that requires automakers to maintain AM broadcast radio in their vehicles without a separate or additional payment, fee, or surcharge. A Michigan teen used a slingshot to successfully ward off a kidnapper who had grabbed his younger sister while she was playing in their backyard on Wednesday. The 8-year-old girl was "mushroom hunting" in the backyard of her Alpena Township home when a man emerged from the woods connected to the backyard, grabbed her, and placed his hand over her mouth in an attempt to pull her into the woods. The girl's 13-year-old brother, who was in his room inside their home, heard his sister's screams and grabbed a slingshot, aimed it at the kidnapper from his bedroom and successfully struck the man in the head. Declaring a mission to liberate “Taco Tuesday” for all, Taco Bell is asking U.S. regulators to force Wyoming-based Taco John's to abandon its longstanding claim to the trademark. Too many businesses and others refer to “Taco Tuesday” for Taco John's to be able to have exclusive rights to the phrase, Taco Bell asserts in a U.S. Patent and Trademark Office See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Taco Bell is going after Taco Johns!

I Survived Bear Grylls is on tonight, Rainn Wilson and the Geography of Bliss looks really good, we are 6 seasons deep on Young Sheldon, The Joe Schmo Show is coming back, Haley Pullos was arrested for DUI, a watchdog group found that a lot of athletic wear have toxic chemicals in them, Taco Bell is going after Taco Johns, and Vinnie reads your texts!

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The guys open the podcast talking about what they did for Mother's Day. Then it's on to the nights beers, and a brief discussion about the Loons win over Philly in the US Open Cup. Next, they talk about the Loons loss to SKC. They discuss the formation, having players in the wrong spots, defensive mishaps, and get into a larger discussion about analytics in regards to DSC's performance as of late. The guys then make their predictions for the upcoming matches with Portland & Houston. They finish up the episode with a story about a man in MN who doesn't like Taco Johns and go off the rails a bit talking about the new Miller Lite ad campaign.

Drake has to decipher which ones which and he gets a free food item from Taco Johns for every one he gets right!

Drake has to decipher which ones which and he gets a free food item from Taco Johns for every one he gets right!

With my guest The Barron we discuss stupid quotes by famous people. I place my order at Taco Johns.  Fun for all adult ears!

Taco Johns vs. Taco Chon? Plus, who's your doppelganger? Those and more on today's "DeRush-Hour News Headlines"!

We hope everyone has a great July 4th and enters July 5th with all their limbs! Listen as we chat over UFC 276, who does Izzy fight next? Whats next for Max Holloway? Cerrone retires, how will you remember his legacy? Pac 12 wil explore options after losing members to the BIG 10? What happens next for the Pac 12? And another Makes Sense If You Don't Think About It, from Taco Johns, makes sure to tune in for all these topics and more! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/3gigsports/support

Joe Soltis, CEO, ChoiceLocal (Cleveland, OH)   Joe Soltis is CEO at ChoiceLocal, which Joe describes as “the top performing franchise growth engine” with a “money back guarantee.” The agency offers a wide scope of services for franchisors and franchisees of over 50 brands, enabling them to provide “Fortune 500 level customer service, results, strategy, and ROI on the franchisee level” for a “small and medium size business price.”  Large clients might be parent companies of franchise systems, franchisors owning 20 or more franchise systems where each system may have from 20 to 200 franchisees – and up to as many as 6,000 internal franchise units. Small franchise systems may have 10 units. For these smaller clients, the agency facilitates franchise development, consumer, new customer, location, company, and digital talent recruitment marketing. Joe says hiring is a challenge, especially in the franchise space. The agency needs to understand its client's hiring needs, the kind of candidates it desires, and the historical hire rates to know the number of applicants to target . . . then reverse engineer the hire rate/cost per quality candidate by channel and implement the most effective marketing strategy to ensure future growth. Joe says they use the same channels as they do for consumer marketing (in a different order), plus some that are recruitment specific. Joe notes that franchise operations need to beware . . . a lot of agencies will lock clients into proprietary technology solutions . . . that don't fit. ChoiceLocal strives to find the right tools for each client to build a “win-win” ecosystem where franchisor, franchisee, and the agency all win. He says it's important that the tool providers are companies sensitive to client needs, adaptable to a changing market, and willing to invest in “making sure that you can use their tool to provide the best in the world customer service to your end customers.” Joe started his career working his way up for 10 years in a company that grew to serve Fortune 500 companies. At a time of great personal loss, he changed the direction of his life. In his words, I always said I wanted to be successful so that I could help people, and that day it changed to “I don't want to just build something; I want to help people and I want to do it now. I don't want to be successful so that I can help people later. I want to do it now.” Joe started ChoiceLocal with the mission “to help others” – the agency's franchisor and franchisee partners, agency teammates (to make their dreams and aspirations reality), and people in the community.  Joe structured the agency with the goal of having employees work their 40-hours, then “unplug and leave work at work.” With a teammate Net Promoter Score in the 70s (far exceeding the “good” score, which is in the 30s), the agency has been a Top Workplace in Northeast Ohio for the past five years. When Covid struck, the agency created a ChoiceLocal Economic Stimulus Package to help its customers “grow through the downturn,” an initiative that Joe estimates saved 30 franchisees from going out of business.  Giving back to the community is “baked into” the agency's DNA, with 10% of profits dedicated to helping “kids in need.” Joe says the agency's “big hairy audacious goal is to help 10,000 kids a year.” As of this interview, the agency had already helped 6,000 kids in 2022 through such things as meal programs, partnering with Habitat for Humanity to provide a home for an in-need family, and through team members' personal volunteer work in the community. Joe says the next thing after achieving this goal would be to “raise the goal.” Recently, the agency spun off a dental franchise, Broadview Dental Group, which Joe targets to be “the largest provider of dental care in the United States within 10 years.” Expectations are that dentists following this franchise system “can have 4.5 times the profit of a typical dental practice and only have to work three days a week to do it.” In this franchise system, a dentist maintains 100% of the business's equity and, on retirement, can sell the franchise. Joe can be reached on his agency's website at choicelocal.com, by following ChoiceLocal on social media channels @ChoiceLocal, by following Joe on Twitter @helpothersjoe, or by connecting with him on LinkedIn.  ROB: Welcome to the Marketing Agency Leadership Podcast. I'm your host, Rob Kischuk, and I am joined today by Joe Soltis, CEO at ChoiceLocal based in Cleveland, Ohio. Welcome to the podcast, Joe. JOE: Rob, great to be with you today. ROB: Excellent to have you here. Why don't you start off by telling us about ChoiceLocal? What is the firm's specialty? What is your superpower? What are you known for? Hit us with it. JOE: We're the top performing franchise growth engine. We work exclusively with franchisors and franchisees, and the reason we do that is we want to give Fortune 500 level customer service, results, strategy, and ROI, but we want to be able to do it when you look on the franchisee level at a small and medium size business price while delivering that. When we do that, we offer a money back guarantee. We're the first and only franchise marketing agency to offer that money back guarantee. We work with 50+ brands. We're one of the fastest growing companies in the U.S., members of the IFA, the whole nine yards.  ROB: Wow, congratulations. There's a certain clarity to that that is certainly appreciated. Let's peel it back just a layer. When we think about franchise, I think some of us think about restaurants, but there are franchises of all stripes. There is plumbing. There are franchise marketing agencies, for that matter. So what does a typical customer look like? Is there a particular range of franchises, of locations? Because you could have two or two thousand. What's a typical engagement look like? JOE: We work with some franchise systems that are owned by what we would call a platform, like a parent company that owns franchise systems. There are some franchisors that we work with that actually own 20+ franchise systems, and within each of those franchise systems there can range anywhere between 20 franchisees on the small side and 200 on the large side. So, we're talking within these companies 2,000-unit franchise operations, and some franchise systems that we work with even have 6,000+ franchise units within them. Also, on the other end of the spectrum, there are franchise systems that we work with that are 10-unit franchise systems. We power them on franchise development, we power them on consumer marketing and new customer marketing for their franchisees as well as their company and locations, and we also power their talent recruitment through digital marketing to drive highly qualified applicants. Staffing is obviously a huge challenge in today's world, and particularly within the franchising space. ROB: That's a little bit of a wider scope of services than I think we often hear in local marketing, especially once you get into the recruitment side. So that's interesting. Is it the same channels for getting customers in and getting employees in? Is it different? What's the mix of touchpoints there? JOE: It is the same channels, used in a different order, plus there are additional channels that are recruiting specific. Obviously, there's different job boards that are highly important in the recruiting space, and then there's also a whole host of digital channels that can be activated, from geotargeted Google Ads to Facebook advertising. Each of them has their strengths and their weaknesses. Our job within these franchise systems is to understand what their hiring needs are, who they're looking to hire, what their historical hire rates are so we know how many applicants we need to drive, and then we can also reverse engineer the hire rate by channel, and then we can from there figure out their cost per quality applicant by channel and then develop a marketing mix that's going to allow them to continue to grow. ROB: There's a lot going on there. Over time we've seen different platforms that have tried to jump to the forefront to help, I think, organizations like ChoiceLocal, handle marketing for multilocation, for franchises. What's the state of the tool ecosystem for this? Has any tool that tries to help with this problem and actually create a library of content to push out to different locations worked? Or has it not worked and you end up building some of those solutions yourselves? How do you look at dozens of locations, different local needs, some shared content, that sort of thing? JOE: There are a lot of agencies that will come in and sell franchise systems, their own proprietary tech in order to bring that about. What we've generally found is when these marketing agencies bring in their proprietary tech, it's more in the agency's interest and less in the interest of the franchisor and the franchisee. Essentially, it's “Here, take this marketing solution. Take our proprietary tech, and then it's impossible for you to leave us.” That's how they set that up, and it can create some difficulty and a lot of angst within these different franchise systems. When working in the franchising space, what you need to do is build a win-win ecosystem where the franchisor wins, the franchisee wins, and as a byproduct of that, as the agency you win as well. There's a whole host of various tools in this, from Rallio to WebPunch to SOCi. There's a lot of others. Yext. These are all various powerful tools that can be used and deployed. There's other powerful tools in the call tracking space, too. You have companies like CallRail who do a really strong job with this, with call analytics and those types of things. The job of the agency is to find the right tools that are right for that franchise system while also using their agency buying power to leverage economies of scale and do what's in the best interest of their client partners. ROB: If I hear you correctly, there's not a one-size-fits-all best franchise management tool. It is a little bit of a best of breed, it's a what are the needs of your particular brand/set of stores, that kind of thing. Sometimes it is Yext, maybe sometimes you bring CallRail to the table. You're the experts, and you're prescribing the menu that you recommend. JOE: Yeah, that is right. One thing, too, as you follow these companies – depending on how much they're investing in R&D, how much they're willing to listen to their customer, how much they're willing to allow their agency partners to fuel their product roadmap and guide their product roadmap – that's really how you're going to pick your partners, in large part. There's a lot of these SaaS companies that are not very customer service minded. They're more like “Get in, sign up for a product, and then leave us alone” kind of deal, and as an agency, that's not the kind of partner you're looking for. You're looking for ones that will invest in making sure that you can use their tool to provide the best in the world customer service to your end customers. Why I say that is that's something to look out for in the beginning. And the other reason I say that is the companies that are willing to invest in their customer service also tend to invest in their product development, and you'll notice there's ebbs and flows of who's good and who's bad when they do this. And things change, so you've got to find a partner that's always looking to change and adapt with the market as it changes and evolves. ROB: It's interesting how the cast of characters has changed. When I google for this problem space, Hootsuite is out there, Content and Sprout are out there contending for just a small slice of that franchise deal. But you know they're chasing every other vertical in social as well. I can certainly appreciate – we're in Atlanta; CallRail is a neighbor company here. Do you know their roots a little bit? It's an interesting background on them. JOE: It's a really neat company. ROB: The founder started off with a site to help people with BMWs that were out of warranty to find a local repair shop. My understanding is if you have a BMW that's out of warranty, you need a local repair shop. That's what I've heard. So, he started off doing lead gen for these local shops and then built call tracking to help prove the value of his BMWershops.com website, and ended up building CallRail from it. JOE: What's neat about CallRail, too, is they really have come in – there's a lot of companies that historically have played in that place, and they really trounced them. Some of their advanced features and some of their call analytics, listening to calls, transcribing calls, turning them into qualified leads, or basically saying what's a qualified lead, what's a hot lead, what's not a lead, and how they built some of that technology – it's pretty cool stuff. ROB: Yeah, there's a tremendous customer focus there. I do want to shift gears for a moment; I want to get to the origin story of ChoiceLocal. What led you to create this firm? What led you to this point of focus, of all the areas you could have focused on helping and niches you could have served? JOE: I served at a company that served multibillion dollar companies. I was a Vice President of Operations of Product Development there. We served Fortune 500 companies – FedEx, CBS, other multibillion dollar publicly traded companies. That's where I spent my day and that's who I served. We built a team of 180 full-time digital marketers. Kind of a neat story. Started as employee #8, within a few years worked my way up to VP of Ops and Product Development and did that. It was cool. I learned a lot and I had some really great mentors while I was there. The owners there have done some really amazing things outside of agency, just building multimillion dollar companies and multibillion dollar companies and taking some of them public, like NCS Healthcare and others. So, I learned a ton while I was there over that 10-year period. Then in 2012, we had a pregnancy. Went into an ultrasound room with my wife and there was no heartbeat. So we lost our son, Ben, pretty late in the pregnancy. I always said I wanted to be successful so that I could help people, and that day it changed to “I don't want to just build something; I want to help people and I want to do it now. I don't want to be successful so that I can help people later. I want to do it now.” That's actually how ChoiceLocal got started. In its simple form, our mission always has been – our mission and our core values were written prior to even having a business plan – our mission is help others. We help our partners succeed, our franchisor and franchisee partners, help their dreams and aspirations become a reality. We help our teammates' dreams and aspirations become a reality. We've been a Top Workplace in Northeast Ohio five years running. We have a teammate Net Promoter Score in the 70s, which is unheard of high. You ask people, “What is a good employee Net Promoter Score?”, the answer is 30. We're hanging out in the 70s. So, we really work to live that mission and really care about others. Working in the agency space, a lot of agencies will bring in talent, they will work them like crazy for like five years until they burn out, and then they leave and they go in-house. Having experienced that and have friends who've experienced that in other companies, I wanted to do something fundamentally different. That's why we founded ChoiceLocal and built it the way that we have. But our mission of help others is also giving back. We take 10% of the profits out of the company and we use it to help kids in need. Our big hairy audacious goal is to help 10,000 kids a year. We created the Benjamin Isaac Foundation, named after our son, Ben. We just gave a home to a single mother with three kids. Her name is Brie; she's got three beautiful boys. We just had their house dedication two weekends ago, and that was through Habitat for Humanity. We were the sole sponsor for the home. Got to meet her beautiful boys. We helped them move in, had the housewarming and a dedication. It was so cool. It's just so cool. We do tons of other stuff like that. So far this year – it's now June, and we are at a little over 6,000 kids that we've helped through various charities that we partner with. ROB: Well, 4,000 more to go and then another goal. JOE: Yes, raise the goal. ROB: There's a depth in that origin story. I think something that is interesting to think through – when you have a team, when you're giving to causes, how do you connect the day-to-day of what the team is doing to the causes that the company is giving to and really ensure that there's an authentic connection there? I think it can be very disconnected sometimes. Here's the owner, here's the team, we're building this stuff, some money got shot out over here – to a good cause, but maybe it doesn't feel relevant to the day-to-day. So how do you think about connecting the team to the cause? JOE: That's a great question. It's a really great question. The first thing is we hire for people that have the core values that we have. Family, giving, integrity in all things. There's certain ways that you can interview people to make sure that they have those. And if you actually study some of the psychology behind it, if you study various hiring techniques that are used in books like Topgrading and WHO and those types of things, there's ways you can interview for those core values and competencies to screen people out that don't have that. So, you're hiring people that believe what you believe and then you're coming into a culture that celebrates those core values and celebrates those things. For example, we have a team meeting every single month where we update on everything that's happening in the agency, what's going on with business strategy. We're transparent on financials and performance and all of those things so everybody can see what's going on. We have a part where we talk about help others and core values. In core values, people nominate teammates and they celebrate how they live those core values out, and we tell those stories. A lot of those core values are how we help our partners and internally, but it's also how we give back. And then we tie in our financial performance. We then say, “Because we were able to do this, we were able to give Brie and her three boys this gift.” We make it very personal. Along those lines, we also have quarterly volunteering. We try to get every teammate to volunteer once a quarter so they can see, feel, and touch the work they're doing. My personal favorite is when we go to the Boys and Girls Club of America. Those kids need love, they need support, they need good mentors, and when you go there, you feel fantastic afterwards because you've been able to deliver some of that for them. So that's really powerful. And then we also do this BHAG walkthrough. BHAG stands for big hairy audacious goal. We have this roadmap, and then we say, “Here's three kids that were helped because of this. Here's 1,600 kids that were fed for a year in a place of education.” We did this charity giveaway through our annual thing at the International Franchise Association called the ChoiceLocal 10k Charity Giveaway. People enter a drawing giveaway. There's a really cool story – there's a woman who served as a board member of the International Franchise Association; today she owns about 20 Taco Johns franchises. Very successful businesswomen. She picked the Great Harvest Heartland as her charity, and she ended up winning. What I found out after she won is that as a kid, she was so poor that she needed to go to the foodbank to eat. So, it was a very personal gift for her. That's the type of stuff that really hits home, when you always tie it to that personal story. And then when you say, “Because you were able to do this specifically,” and you name the person, “it allowed us to be able to do this.” Sorry, I'm passionate about this – the last thing I'll add to it is helping the business owner. This particular franchisee is having a really hard time and they're on the verge of going out of business. We had a good amount of this through COVID. We announced the ChoiceLocal Economic Stimulus Package for our customers. We have this whole “grow through the downturn” quarterly priority and theme. We saved probably 30 franchisees from going out of business during COVID, and that was really cool. We celebrated each one of those as a company during the team meetings and made a really big deal out of it, because it's a huge deal. They put their life savings into the business. Together, we helped save their business. That's flipping awesome. It's really cool. ROB: What an opportunity. I hear a certain proximity that you're referring to within the team. Is all of your team right there, one office, one team? Is that your world, or are people in different places? JOE: It used to be that way, pre-COVID. We were in the office three days a week, and Monday/Friday work from home. COVID hit and we went 100% remote. Then we had highest teammate Net Promoter Score ever, highest client Net Promoter Score ever, highest revenue ever by far, highest profit dollars. We're like, this is working really well. So we surveyed our team and said, “What do you guys want to do?” and everybody said basically, work from home, come into the office once. So, we instituted that. What we then found is about 10-15% of our staff in a given week would come into the office, and they'd come in on different days, and when they came in there was like 3% of our staff there. It felt a little lonely, and some people like that connectedness. So I just met with our leadership team on this this past week; we're probably going to be instituting now – we do a lot of stuff on Slack. I know a lot of companies do. Basically, we're going to have ChoiceLocal In-Office Day. It's going to be completely optional, but everybody that's going to go is going to go into Slack, fill out this poll, and RSVP and say “Hey, I'm going to be in the office this day” and try to get other teammates to come in. And then they're going to have a group of probably 30-40% of the company in on that individual day, and they can hang out together. Plus we do all the fun stuff. We have team meets once a month. Those are in person. About half the company comes to those; the rest are virtual. We bring in catered food. We're in Cleveland, so we're going to watch a Cleveland Guardians, which used to be the Cleveland Indians, game. ROB: Yeah, that's an adjustment there as well. JOE: Stuff like that. We do Topgolf. We do a big Christmas party every year. Stuff like that. It's fun. It's so fun. ROB: It sounds like an adjustment, but it sounds like listening to the team, it sounds like adjusting well. When I think about folks I've known in the agency world in Cleveland, there's no shortage of opportunity to lose your team to the revolving door of brands. That seems like it's probably the way of life there – not to mention the regional opportunities with vendors. It really does take some work to keep them on the agency side, I think. JOE: Historically, at my prior agency that was definitely a continual challenge. We launched ChoiceLocal with the mission of help others, with the goal – we're not perfect at this; I don't want to sugarcoat it – but with the goal of being a fast-paced, high energy environment, but you work 40 hours, then you unplug and you leave work at work. We were able to build our systems so that's possible. We historically have had almost no turnover. Now, with that said, this year during COVID, our turnover rate has spiked a bit, but it's nothing like I was ever used to. In a year we would have maybe, out of 100 people, like 1 to 2 people leave that we didn't want to leave. Historically. This year that number is probably up to like 4 out of 100. ROB: Yeah, that's turnover, but it's not a high turnover rate. It is managing what it is. It sounds like you have learned a lot along the way. As you think about lessons you've learned building ChoiceLocal, are there particular things you think of that you would wish to go back and tell yourself to do differently if you were able to? JOE: There's a whole host of things. One of the things I have as an advantage is I was a political science major, and I learned absolutely nothing in college that is useful to me today. [laughs] ROB: A beginner's mindset is what you're saying. [laughs] JOE: Yeah, exactly. There's this book called All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten, and there's so much truth to that. I was raised treat others the way you want to be treated, and that's how I've always operated. I've always brought that to what I do because I thought it's the right thing to do. But I've actually found it's an amazingly sound business strategy. What I'm going to say now may be a little bit controversial, but there's so much stuff that you learn in business school, like when you're getting your MBA and those types of things, and so much of that you need to throw out and ignore because it's trash. For example, you're a service-based business, so a person is not a commodity. A person is not a tool to be used. A person is not a KPI. They are a person with dignity, a person who has a family, a person who deserves to be cared about, loved, and appreciated. If you just do that and focus on that first, the business results tend to take care of themselves. But at the same point, KPIs are important. Accountability is important. Ensuring that you have that is critical. Knowing that you hire right for core values first and for performance second, but also critically important – all of that integrates really well, and those are really important things. The last thing, from a mistake that I made, that I'll say is there's a book called Multipliers: How the Best Leaders Make Everyone Else Smarter, and basically the premise of the book – and this happens for a lot of folks in agencies, particularly in leadership positions – how did you get successful? You got successful by busting your butt and being pretty smart about the way you do things. That's how you were successful. The weakness that comes with that is as you get a bigger team, you need to shut up, you need to ask questions, and you need to be humble. That's the next level. And that book, for me, as I was evolving and growing as a leader, taught me those skills. It played a really important role, and now it's something I believe in so strongly. I met with a future VP of our organization who's probably going to get promoted to a VP very, very shortly, and I said, “Read this book. Take it to heart and do it.” Then I said, “Here's all the stupid things that I did, and here's how this book helped me.” ROB: You start to pull apart some pieces, many questions come to mind. I start to think about – clearly, when you talk about future VP, there's some planning there. There's still some awareness of individuals in your organization, even though at 100 people, it starts to get hard to know everyone. Especially when some people aren't even coming in one day a week, possibly. It's an interesting mix. I think this probably had to be intentional for you as well – building up the leadership team. What are the pieces you've put in place at different stages in the business to build around you to be your best, but also to help the company be its best, maybe where you aren't? JOE: Hire generous people, people that love helping other people be successful. If you have people on your leadership team that don't believe that, don't have them on your leadership team. And if you don't believe that, work on it. [laughs] It's so critical. You need to hire generous people, surround yourself with generous people. It's funny; I was like, we're the world's best at marketing for franchise systems, world's best at franchise development, consumer marketing for franchising; we're the world's best at recruiting for franchise systems. Why don't we just own a franchise system? So, we launched a separate franchise system, hired a guy who led another franchise system to $750 million in network revenue to be the CEO of it. And he believes what we believe. What attracted him to us first and foremost – and he's got an amazing track record in franchising – was our values. He's a generous person. He believes in integrity. He believes in accountability and performance at the same time. So, you've got to find people that believe that and have those competencies. The other thing I'll say is it's important, if you're hiring somebody to lead a business, that they understand that business. You can do it and you can be successful if you don't understand it inside and out, but it's way harder. If you can find people with the right values but also who have worked at different levels in that industry over the course of their career, they can understand the strengths and weaknesses of various decisions, and when you make a decision, how it affects people in different parts of the organization or what you're actually asking and what it entails to make it happen. Which tends to result in better decisions being made, better business performance, less mistakes. Those are the types of things that you really look for. ROB: What franchise business have you got yourself into, then, now? JOE: The name of it is Broadview Dental Group. Our vision is to be the largest provider of dental care in the United States within 10 years. We have some aggressive plans, but I am very confident that we're going to be able to pull it off. ROB: And I've heard that some different models of roll-up franchise operating groups – I've heard they're taking the dental world kind of by storm. The independent dentist is starting to dry up a little bit. Are you seeing that? Is that part of the move? JOE: Yes, it is, and it's sad. What's ended up happening – there actually is one other franchise system in the dental space. I wouldn't call it a real franchise system. That sounds arrogant. I don't mean it that way. But if you look at how franchise systems typically operate, where they basically have some sort of buy-in and then some sort of royalty, it's set up very different with the buy-in being extremely, extremely, extremely high. It's different. But if you look at most of them, they're called DSOs or DPOs, and what they basically do is a dentist is like “Hey, I want to get my practice to the next level.” Then these DSOs or DPOs, which are typically funded by venture capital – this isn't always the case, but typically with venture capital, they care about one thing, which is maximizing shareholder wealth. They'll say, “Okay, you want to take your business to the next level? Sign here. We get 70% equity in your business up to 90% over time, and we can fire you if we want to, and we'll help get your business to the next level.” When you're a dentist and you're passionate about helping others and you're passionate about your practice and your trade, you basically just need a really good business mentor, and most dentists really haven't had it. So what we're doing is giving them 100% equity in their own business, a way to get to the point where they can have 4.5 times the profit of a typical dental practice and only have to work three days a week to do it, and all they need to do is follow our system. And they own 100% of their business. They can sell it when they want to, and when they sell it, they'll sell it for a higher multiple because guess what? In franchising, when you sell your business when you're ready to retire, it's worth more because it's a franchise system and it's proven. There's less risk involved. ROB: Right, it's not (Your Name) Dentistry. It is part of an umbrella. There's brand equity there, there's a system. They don't have to figure it all out. One of my college roommates, his dad was in the dental world, and when you mentioned the high fee to buy in – he always told me dentists like to buy expensive things, so I guess the franchise must be one of those things, just priced for the market, I suppose. When we look ahead to what's next for ChoiceLocal, what's next for marketing in the franchising world, Joe, what are you seeing? What are you excited about for the firm, for what is going to be necessary for your clients to continue as the marketing world evolves? What are you seeing? JOE: There's so much exciting growth ahead. One of the things that I love about being an agency that focuses on ROI and provable results is every time there's an economic downturn, it's good for the agency growth and it's good for your customers. What happens is when there's an economic recession, which I believe we're headed into – we have horrible inflation and there's certain policies that have to be implemented to bring it under control, and the result of that is going to be a recession. What happens in those cases is companies tend to pull back in marketing. But if you're driving marketing where for every dollar they spend, you're giving them $18 in new customer revenue, it's stupid not to spend that. You can grow through the downturn. You can take market share. Imagine putting a dollar in the stock market and getting $18 back within a year. It's a brilliant investment. It's a simple investment. So, what's going to end up happening is that's going to accelerate growth within agencies that are ROI-focused as this economic recession hits, and for however long it hits for. That's exciting. But what I'm also excited about in the newer leading-edge things within agencies is the ability for big data backed with artificial intelligence to transform marketing, to transform business, and frankly to transform medicine. I was talking with the COO of ChoiceLocal, who serves a role with Broadview as well, and we're like, who ever thought that two internet marketers would fundamentally change healthcare and dental care in the U.S.? You'd be like, “Explain that.” It's the same thing you do in marketing with big data. If you have a massive amount of data in a HIPAA compliant way, you can anonymize it, data mine it, and find correlations and causations and literally, with that type of patient data pool, you can change medicine. Similarly, you can do the same thing with marketing, where you can data mine, you can find ways to micro-target ideal customers based on who current ideal customers are – and you may not even know what some of those things are – and then you can target them and measure the performance and lift. That's crazy cool stuff. And that's the newer leading-edge stuff that's really exciting, particularly when you're dealing with franchise systems and the volume that's behind that. ROB: Right. You've got volume there, you've got a growing scale in the business. To think about leveraging it for more than just “Hey, we're bigger” – lots of interesting things there. Joe, when people want to find and connect with you and with ChoiceLocal, where should they go to find you? JOE: They can go to choicelocal.com. Everything is there. They can follow ChoiceLocal on pretty much every social media channel that exists @ChoiceLocal. So they can do that. They can follow me personally on Twitter @helpothersjoe or connect with me on LinkedIn. I try to post a lot of content there that's specific to purpose-driven business, which is a huge passion of mine, as well as franchising and marketing as well. So yeah, @helpothersjoe on Twitter is for me personally. ROB: That's excellent. Joe, thank you for coming on the podcast. Thank you for sharing your experiences. Congratulations on what you've built so far and why you're building it. I think everyone listening has enjoyed the depth in the origin of the business and the intentionality as you build it. JOE: Thanks, Rob. Thanks for all you've done and thanks for having me on today. It really is a great pleasure. Really appreciate you. ROB: All right, appreciate you. Take care. Bye. Thank you for listening. The Marketing Agency Leadership Podcast is presented by Converge. 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In the first of an EPIC 12-part series Chid & Sigh embark on a BRAVE and NOBLE quest! Join them as they seek the treasure and glory as they attempt to record 12 straight episodes of the hit podcast Rounding Down.  In hour one of the marathon we welcome past champions and worthy guests Girl Wonder (@Girl_wonderX) and Benny Bragan (@bennybragan) they came to talk band The Hold Steady with us! Before we could get to deep into the topic, we're joined by The Sherbert Pervert who reveals much more information than usual. We learn about his origins, where he is from, his political affiliations, and even his plans for a new business he's in the process of acquiring!  A brief history of the band, albums and top 80 songs get ranked, and we play every game you'd ever dreamed of.  Also discussed on the episode is Taco Johns, Benny's misspelled Hold Steady tattoo, chill wave, 311, and Sublime.  Will Chid and Sigh still be friends by the end of this wild ride? 12 hours is a really long time to spend with someone you love, just ask recently un-retired Tom Brady.  Tune in to find out. Follow Girl Wonder & Benny on Twitter:·         https://twitter.com/Girl_wonderX·         https://twitter.com/bennybraganSupport the show (https://cash.app/$roundingdown)

Today on the show, B-sox and Mike Reyes from Cinemablend reviewed The 355, The Tender Bar plus dove into movie news regarding Betty White, Spider-Man, Elmo vs The Rock and more! https://www.kggo.com/ Mike Reyes: https://twitter.com/MrControversy83 https://www.instagram.com/mrcontroversy83/ https://www.facebook.com/MrControversy83  CinemaBlend: https://www.instagram.com/cinemablend/ https://twitter.com/cinemablend https://www.facebook.com/cinemablendcom/ Overdue Rentals Podcast: https://anchor.fm/overduerentals?fbclid=IwAR3Kal5iIvL1NeioldZtrzlGMY7Yzbr04KYEQ4U_uytLw5t2p_P0pIHHC0A https://twitter.com/RentalsOverdue https://www.facebook.com/OverdueRentals See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

If Ryan could have his dream Thanksgiving, it would be at Taco Johns. Travis introduces Ryan to ASMR. It's official, Kim Kardashian and Pete Davison are together, and the media is disgusted. Russia fires a rocket, space station is almost collateral damage. Sophia Urista literally rained on her rock show parade... Illinois breaks the pot record and we still have two months to go.@Tee_Platt@IAmRyanLacosse@TheCTZPodcastTheCTZ.com

Tuesday, November 2nd 2021 Chris, John & Cori try to figure out what Chris's NDSU / SDSU bet will be this season. Last year he bought TACO JOHNS breakfast in Brookings. What will he put up this year?

We are back again with another episode and this one is a good one. Find out where we are going to be working next! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

This week our hosts JP and Eli are joined by their good friend(smen) Dace (@DeliveryDace) to discuss Friends - Season 3 Episode 6! WOW, what an episode this was featuring flashbacks and lots of almost making whoopie happens! We also had the pleasure of talking traveling the country, eating food, how bad Taco Johns is, and your hero CHID talks about wanting to F**K the head coach of the San Fran 69erz.This plus MUCH MORE!Pre-orders are up for 'Karmic Purgatory' by Keith Walter Down (friend of Sigh's)Karmic Purgatory is the debut solo poetry collection by Keith Walter Dow. Karmic Purgatory isn't just a book of war poetry. It's a collection of poems detailing one man's life, making sense of transitions and turmoil now that he can see them behind him.These poems map out a life as a witness of, and a participant in, conflict before, during, and after military service.Pre-Order from Keith hereIf you miss the pre-order buy it here: Karmic Purgatory by Keith Down at Barnes & Noble---Follow our guest on twitter: @DeliveryDaceListen to the Friendsmen: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/friendsmen/id1480772852Follow Bob Lanager on twitter: @LanagerBobFollow us on Twitter: @CHIDSPIN / @SighFieri / @RoundingDownSupport the show (https://cash.app/$roundingdown)

Finally, we've come to Wyoming, a state as square as its only 3 residents. Turns out, the birthplace of Taco Johns is actually a pretty cool place if you can overlook all the jingoistic hicks. Joining us is the amazing Sam Russo, a real honest to god British guy, and we discuss the thrill of the lonesome vast western expanse, the weirdly progressive vibe in the laws and history, and other great tidbits about Wyoming, a place that exists. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

I feel like diving into an episode such as this clearly makes me a mad man, because it is one of the few topics I could tackle that could have people tune in and instantly hate me. No, it's not politics and No, It's not personal worldly issues....It's debating food. That's right, here at The Zanman Podcast, I've taken it upon myself to rate all of these fast food restaurants in the world we have today. And even though a few key ones were left out, (Taco Johns, Qdoba and Culvers) I won't let it effect the seriousness with which I treated this. I would encourage you to join the conversation wherever you're at, you can do that by following any of these links: oin the Community and Participate in Surveys, Polls, Questions and overall possibly be in an episode of the podcast! Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheZanster/?ref=py_c Twitter: @ZanBrand Instagram: OriginalZanman Don't Forget to Join the Discord and Reddit Communities to add to the fun! Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/TheZanmanPodcast/ You can find the podcast on pretty much any platform. Here are a couple of the main ones. Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/user-944097416 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4IKvIlggNcQc6y1HxQMlqy?si=qtlrQWO8ToqnSykO_07oFw Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-zanman-podcast/id1397019245 Intro/Outro Song: “Mr. Sandman Bring me a Beat” By: OrganicGarbage-- Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/organicgarbagebeatz333 Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCGPThicxTcTyArb0Se-sXgg Song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UrGJokHVZWo

In this episode we talk about migraines, teaming up with Patrick Star, and Taco Johns. Email: Yourshowmyshow@gmail.com Twitter: @yourshowmyshow

Monday, April 19th 2021 Todays the day Chris pays off the bet. NDSU lost to SDSU, so Chris is off to Brookings for breakfast. Let the Taco Johns flow.

Jen Thompson has won more IPF powerlifting world championships than JD Power & Associates can shake a stick at.  We talk to her about the wild bench arches, potty training, and Taco Johns memories. Hybrid Performance Method: https://hybridperformancemethod.com/ and use code MASS to save 5% on all programs Lifting Large: https://www.liftinglarge.com/ and use code MASS20 to save on Lifting Large branded products Spud Inc.: https://www.spud-inc-straps.com/ Texas Power Bars: https://www.texaspowerbars.com/

We are back for episode 6, with our post Thanksgiving hangover. Week 12 gave us other-worldly performances, but also caused many teams unnecessary strife. Tyreek Hill had a career day and Aaron Rodgers had another masterful performance against the Bears. Once again we break down our top five teams entering week 13 and our current MVP choice. We end the show picking week 13 (ATS) and find out how Jeremy enjoyed his Taco Johns. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/goinglongonfirst/support

In this episode of The Couch Cast, Logan and Jeremiah discuss everything from the art of the "Hiroshima" to the terrible experience at Taco Johns. What in the world is a "Hiroshima"? Tune into today's episode to find out!

In a recording session that was far too early, our boys discuss the intricacies of selling pens, why the Babylonians counted in base-60, and the secrets Taco Johns doesn't want you to know. Show Notes: Abbott & Costello - Who's on First? jan Misali - a better way to count & seximal.net You can't play 2 notes at the same time. School of Rock Hawaii 5-0 Drum Fill Matthew Colville - The Shire, Bombadil, and the Old Forest Follow us on Twitter: @IllSoundPodcast Shoot us an email: IllogicallySoundPodcast@gmail.com Music credits: Off to Osaka Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Recorded September 18, 2020 Originally published October 21, 2020

In this episode of Bless the Knees, Justin and Andy start off strong with an important comparison of Taco Johns and Taco Bell. After Andy's hottest take of the day, they jump into some of the bigger NFL stories from the past week. They then go on about their Big 3 Guarantees for week 5 which have a 0% chance of missing. Finally they get into the important stuff, discussing the good and bad from the Seahawks game and breaking down what needs to happen to get a W versus Atlanta. Be sure to follow Justin (@JustinBreske), Andy (@ItsAndyErickson), and Bless the Knees (@BlessTheKneesB3) on Twitter, subscribe to the podcast on your platform of choice, leave a 5-star rating and review on Apple Podcasts, and consider supporting the show on Anchor. Thanks for listening! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/bless-the-knees/support

Cody and Nick's friendship continues to fall apart as we try to figure out what fast food restaurant is the B.O.A.T. 4. Jimmy Johns v 13. McDonalds 5. KFC v 12. Taco Johns

Taco Johns Is Open for Business! Come by and use our safe and easy drive thru windows. You don't want to miss out on our specials. Listen in for some great deals! Who doesn't love a good taco.

Today our guest on the podcast is Jones Loflin. Jones and I met at IFA 2020 in Orlando Florida as a booth neighbor! We got to talking and I knew I wanted to host him on the Podcast. Mr. Loflin is is a speaker, author and sought after trainer. His books include: Juggling Elephants, Always Growing, Getting to It, and Getting the Blue Ribbon. Focus areas include: work life balance, time management, leadership development, and adapting to change. A sample franchise clients he works with includes: Tractor Supply, Choice Hotels, Taco Johns, and Interim Healthcare One of his interesting pieces of past work that most folks in our audience would recognize: Jones worked as a “Trainer of Trainers” for the author of the best- selling book, Who Moved My Cheese? (involved training individuals from the US and other countries how to use the change model in their organizations) Based in North Carolina. Enjoy this episode as we explore all of the above, and get into topics ranging from: -Helping others with the struggle of too much to do -Highly effective leadership lessons and metaphors that help drive profitability at the franchisee level -A thought experiment on how to increase productivity -What the heck is work life balance anyways -The three rings of success in your personal "three ring circus" of life -The impact of technology on productivity and time management (positive and negative) -How leadership is different today compared to 10 years ago, 5 years ago, and even less than one month ago -Change management in these tough times Website Link for more content from Jones Loflin: www.jonesloflin.com/modrn Audio Engineer: ben Kliever

The Boys make history, and have the first female guests on the show (and Alex). They talk about Taco Bell vs Taco Johns, toilet tomfoolery, puzzles, syrup, and Marching Band.

Ray joins us on this one where we go over the reviews from Moses Lake that Becca sent us a while back, we spend an inordinate amount of time talking about streets in the town of Moses Lake as well as Taco Johns and old commercials. Hope you enjoy listening as much as we enjoyed making it. Send us an email with a review you want to submit at onestarcast@gmail.com Music this week is River City Stomp by Jocko check them out here: https://open.spotify.com/artist/3JsdvP7AV20Qv8Oqty1em5?si=k1W60YElQMmz6lABYyIg1Q https://jocko.bandcamp.com Follow Ray's twitter here: https://twitter.com/PrayTheRayAway You can also check out the song/music video we were talking about here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20B4HiHT2r4  

Ray joins us on this one where we go over the reviews from Moses Lake that Becca sent us a while back, we spend an inordinate amount of time talking about streets in the town of Moses Lake as well as Taco Johns and old commercials. Hope you enjoy listening as much as we enjoyed making it. Send us an email with a review you want to submit at onestarcast@gmail.com Music this week is River City Stomp by Jocko check them out here: https://open.spotify.com/artist/3JsdvP7AV20Qv8Oqty1em5?si=k1W60YElQMmz6lABYyIg1Q https://jocko.bandcamp.com Follow Ray's twitter here: https://twitter.com/PrayTheRayAway You can also check out the song/music video we were talking about here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20B4HiHT2r4  

Sitch is home (5:00) and Wendy's limps into the chicken sammie wars. Lebron battles Wyoming (11:00) and Rich from 90 Day catches a break (15:15). Florida projects (26:15) and Wu-Tang is for the children. We compare AB's meltdown to the classics. (39:00)

Chandler is the Digital Marketing Manager for Taco Johns––a fact food chain with 400+ locations. He's cut his teeth as a digital marketing consultant for small businesses. His "Cream Cheese" analogy helps business owners understand where they should be focusing their energy online.   

Aaron and Kim get trolled at the fire parade. Derek learns a valuable lesson about Adderall and Taco Johns restaurant.

Wherein we peel back the curtain and introduce you to the other 1/4 that makes Six Pack and A Pod possible. We welcome South Viet Nam’s basketball sensation, and our CSO, Bruce Robinson (@buhruce). Bruce makes up 1/2 of our technical team, and also 1/2 of our combined talent. Speaking of, if you should require the needs of said technical team please DM us for a quote. Thanks again to all who participated via Twitter. And those who didn’t, you know, the drill. But back to our favorite listeners. Bruce answers all your hard driven questions. Why is Sidney Crosby such a whiney little bitch, despite being America’s Canadian Sweet Heart? What exactly does IT stand for?  What’s the best part of Chicago you can’t get in Seattle? Spoiler Alert, the answer ISN’T Tex-Mex. Your move Taco Johns. And while he’s here, our  CSO also joins the Deadpool in a very unique, and morbidly detailed way. And f### it, how bout that new Eminem album!???!   Twitter: @sixpackandapod   Facebook: Six Pack and a Pod   Email: sixpackandapod@gmail.com

The Patrick Lalley Show on Monday, May 7, 2018. Guests include: Local blogger Scott Ehrisman -- SouthDaCola.com -- on city politics; The Common Man explores what it would like if Harry Carey was a tour guide in Italy; Taco Ted Miller previews fundraising efforts for Avera breast cancer research by Taco Johns and 5 Guys Burgers. I talk about Mike Huether's national recognition for secret government.

Dave's back with episode 2, Dave discusses Taco Johns, home-made Kombucha, getting back to the gym, Pet Talk (yes Dave's cat is in heat), Politics or lack there of, fan questions, fight talk about the upcoming UFC event, and talking about personal shit hoping to help others. Enjoy! Dave can be reached at davespodcast1@gmail.com or FunnyWelder on IG.

On the show today, we’re talking with Billie Jo Waara, who is the CMO of a brand doing some really interesting things in a sector that’s flooded with competitors with deep pockets. We’re talking about Taco Johns. Here’s a fun little fact about Taco John’s. They actually invented and own the trademark for the term Taco Tuesday. See, you already learned something new and the interview hasn’t even started yet. Billie Jo spent the first part of her career in advertising before joining Taco Johns as their CMO, so she has a lot of great stories and insights we talk about in the interview. In today’s episode, you’ll learn: How to create demand for your products before having a presence in a new market What you can do to fan the flames around good online conversations about your brand How to use product innovation to engage a younger audience And a ton more. Billie Jo's Book Recommendations: McDonalds: Behind the Arches Then We Set His Hair on Fire

Joining vape nation, e-cigarette flavors, energy ends the world, Email and Retractions, Luke Cage, keys to being a fake Bills fan, MDMM: Ranch App, incompetent employees, demanding refunds, blending Taco Bell with Taco Johns, Word of the Day, ketchup in the crosshairs, LDSD: woman hides gun and meth in vagina, a woman's natural advantage, people are setting up shake and bake meth labs everywhere, woman had colon connected to vagina, an undercover state lottery agent makes a bust, and TWAGD: mid-life crisis dad breaks bad to impress his son.

Cory snagged a bag of delicious Taco John's west-mex food and met his ol' pal Andy Sell. Over some hardshells, potato oles and coffee, they discuss what makes Denver unique, how people in Iowa are entirely bigger bullies than those of Colorado and some fast food talk.You can see Andy as he will be performing all over Denver until heading back west. For instance, tonight (1/3) at Three Kings Tavern in the comedy basement for MIDNIGHTS, Cory and Eric Henderson's new show.  Also, check out Andy's podcast People We Know.

This week CT and Jeeg have to soldier on without the Nerd Lunch ironman, Pax, who has been kidnapped by our arch-rival Valley High.  But it's all right, ‘cause we're saved by the bell and two returning guests:  Aaron Nix of Movie Hodge Podge and Jay from The Sexy Armpit.  We spend the episode reminiscing about our favorite moments, the most attractive female cast member, and Casey Kasem's epic Cosby sweaters.  Be warned, it's such a lovefest that we're not even fazed by the fact that the show also sounded the death knell of Saturday morning cartoons.  In our Nerd To-Do's, we  get some love for TV's Dallas, Sherman Hemsley, Taco Johns restaurants, and the Back to the Future iPad game.

This week CT and Jeeg have to soldier on without the Nerd Lunch ironman, Pax, who has been kidnapped by our arch-rival Valley High. But it’s all right, ‘cause we’re saved by the bell and two returning guests: Aaron Nix of Movie Hodge Podge and Jay from The Sexy Armpit. We spend the episode reminiscing about our favorite moments, the most attractive female cast member, and Casey Kasem’s epic Cosby sweaters. Be warned, it’s such a lovefest that we're not even fazed by the fact that the show also sounded the death knell of Saturday morning cartoons. In our Nerd To-Do’s, we get some love for TV’s Dallas, Sherman Hemsley, Taco Johns restaurants, and the Back to the Future iPad game.